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Leonard Barrie "Barry" Corbin (born October 16, 1940) is a US actor with more than one hundred credits in film and television and several in computer games.

Biography

Career

Corbin began his career as a Shakespearean actor in the 1960s, but today he's more likely to be seen in the role of the local sheriff, military leader, or some other authority figure, though on occasion, he's effectively portrayed murderous villains as well.
   In 1983-1984, Corbin played Merit Sawyer in the NBC television series Boone. Corbin's role was that of father to the young actor Tom Byrd, who played Boone Sawyer, an aspiring singer. The program was set in rural Tennessee during the 1950s and was created by Earl Hamner, who had great success earlier with CBS's The Waltons.
   Corbin thereafter portrayed former astronaut Maurice Minnifield on CBS's Northern Exposure, for which he received an Emmy nomination. He currently plays Clay Johnson, father of Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson on The Closer series. To moviegoers he's best remembered as the general in WarGames, John Travolta's uncle in Urban Cowboy, or Roscoe Brown, who was July Johnson's bumbling deputy, in the acclaimed western Lonesome Dove.
   In 1994, Corbin narrated the acclaimed TBS documentary MoonShot, telling the story of the 1960s space race from the first-person viewpoint of Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton.
   Currently, Corbin is a cast member of the teenage drama series One Tree Hill, where he portrays a basketball coach for the Tree Hill Ravens.

Personal life

Corbin was born in Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, south of Lubbock in west Texas. He graduated from Monterey High School, where one of his classmates was the Lubbock deejay Bud Andrews. He was the son of Alma LaMerle Scott, a school teacher, and Kilmer Blaine Corbin, a judge and member of the Texas State Senate for two terms from 1949-1957. Corbin studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He was a United States Marine. Many of his films have been westerns, and Corbin's proficiency in the saddle is no act. He played a corrupt sheriff in the 2001 Tom Selleck Turner Network Television film Crossfire Trail. Much of his spare time is spent riding horses and tending to cattle on his small Texas ranch near Fort Worth. He volunteered his time to charity rodeos for many years. In 2006, he participated in the Lubbock centennial.(External Link

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Corbin lives on the ranch with his daughter, Shannon Ross (born 1965) and grandchildren. Corbin found Shannon in June 1991, when she was twenty-six. Shannon had been adopted as an infant; her birth mother, who had an affair with Corbin, gave up the child through the Methodist Mission Home in San Antonio, without having told Corbin of the pregnancy. Corbin has three sons: Bernard (born 1970), Jim (born 1979), and Christopher (born 1982). He and his second wife, Susan, divorced in 1992.

Filmography

Movies

Television

Celebrity Poker Showdown

Dallas

Northern Exposure - Maurice Minnifield

One Tree Hill - Coach Whitey Durham

Reba - J.V McKinney

Lonesome Dove miniseries - Roscoe Brown

The Thorn Birds miniseries

M*A*S*H - Sgt. Joe Vickers in episode "Your Retention, Please" (episode 907)

Walker, Texas Ranger - Crowder

Understanding - narrator for "Traffic" episode

The Closer - Clay Johnson

King of the Hill - Fire Chief

Computer games

as General Ben Carville - This role was reprised in the sequel,, where his role was drastically increased. The game also featured a number of cinematics spoofing his role in WarGames.

Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive as Jackson Cross - An NSA operative who kidnaps and threatens to kill the main character in his pursuit of an alien artifact.Further Information

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